Word: retreatism
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...Lachaise is not just any cemetery. It has been a stage for grand episodes of French history for centuries. Originally a country retreat, it was named after the confessor of King Louis XIV, whose successor expelled the Jesuit priests living there in 1763. It became a cemetery in 1804. Then, in 1871--a century before Morrison's death--Parisian anarchists staged a pitched battle against their foes amid the tombstones; 147 survivors were executed against the cemetery wall and buried in a mass grave...
...Second Vatican Council. "This fear," Benedict declares, "is unfounded." As for the precise timing of the release of the document, one can wonder (with a wink) if it's more than coincidence that it came out just before Benedict zips out of Rome for a three-week mountain retreat...
...Faust will not have much time to relax before students and faculty pour back into the Yard in September. In addition to the traditional retreat later this summer with the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing board, the president will attend a dean's retreat next week to discuss her plans with the group of administrators she considers her "cabinet...
...talking about planning and strategy and how to both develop these within schools but also to integrate them across schools," Faust said, naming Allston expansion, science planning, and the University's long-delayed capital campaign as priorities that would be discussed at the retreat...
...Fraga speculates that Mrs. Kirchner's announced candidacy, if successful, could well allow President Kirchner to run for reelection in 2011, when he hopes such criticism will have abated, the Kirchners then succeeding each other in office on a long-term basis. Says Fraga: "Kirchner has made a tactical retreat, but he has not abandoned his objective of retaining power, allowing his wife one or two terms and then following her himself...